JCI Homs Organizes Awareness-raising March to Introduce Ways to Deal with Thalassemia Disease

With the participation of dozens of young people from Homs, the JCI of Homs carried out an awareness-raising march aimed at introducing the Thalassemia disease, ways of dealing with it and the means of assistance that can be provided to those affected by it.

Dr. Dana Al-Agha, the local president of the JCI in Homs, said that the activity of the international cooperation sector aims to introduce Thalassemia disease within the framework of the efforts exerted by the chamber during the past days within a project that demonstrates ways of solidarity with the infected and how to provide assistance to them.

Vice president for the international sector Haya Al-Saadi confirmed that this activity comes within the framework of a project entitled “Rising doctors” aimed at highlighting the need of this category for support and periodic blood donation, in addition to educating doctors and pharmacists on effective awareness during their work.

The project manager Ahmed Ghassan al-Ahmed explained that the campaign included a visit to the Centers for Thalassemia patients, in addition to awareness-raising activities on the disease and a mural explaining the suffering of patients and urging periodic donation of blood to them in the framework of serious humanitarian work.

A number of the JCI young people stressed that their participation in this activity is part of their human and moral duty towards this category of patients who need great support and effort to raise their awareness about this disease and how to deal with it.

Amal Farhat